Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30577166-20161221080936/@comment-30155146-20171215061436

Smogon allows for any pokemon set to easily be generated.

PBB locks it's HA's behind a breeding wall of both chance and skill - you will encounter a lot more ash grens than protean. As stated previously in the thread, the XY series of anime have essentially made ash-greninja a posterboy of "cool".

This means that everyone and their mother runs 1 or 2 ash hardcounters.

A defensive team will have mons that won't let Ash-Greninja transform such as Toxapex, and a typical offensive one will have a mon that sets up on greninja, like gyra or manaphy.

Ash Greninja is only good as a sweeper after it's checks have been removed, but in the BC, people constantly lead with it, which is hillariously dissapointing.